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Top bureaucrat who oversaw Robodebt rollout says document to ministers was potentially misleading

Kathryn Campbell tells the Robodebt royal commission that a document put to Cabinet failed to mention the need for legislative change.

ABC News

The equity release myths and your questions

Peter McGahan, chief executive of Cornwall-based Worldwide Financial Planning, addresses ‘a few old tales’ circulating around equity release

Birmingham Post

‘Rorting’ claims over bushfire grants rejected by NSW premier

Federal emergency management minister Murray Watt criticises state cabinet over relief program

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Do trees really stay in touch via a 'wood-wide web'? Here's what the evidence says

Trees in a forest might look solitary but they are connected underground by a complex network of thread-like strands of fungi, some of which may only be visible to us as mushrooms on the surface. Through these connections in the soil, trees are widely believed to share food, water and…

The Conversation

Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge

Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them

The Guardian - UK

Regulator eyes tariff to boost clean energy

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is working on a "green tariff" that will determine the price of power bills for factory owners that need to use clean energy to achieve carbon neutrality.

Bangkok Post

Promises of 'fair' energy

Deputy Prime Minister and Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwon has caused a big splash in politics with his two "open letters", adding some colour to predictable Thai politics.

Bangkok Post

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The struggle in harnessing power prices

Following protests from the business community, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) reduced its planned hike to the power tariff for companies to 13%, down from 20.5%, but entrepreneurs say they cannot maintain product prices at these rates.

Bangkok Post

Executives call for panel to deal with power bills

The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) plans to ask the government to jointly set up a panel to deal with high power bills, which are discouraging foreign businesses from investing in Thailand.

Bangkok Post

Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why

For most people around the world, physical work takes up a great amount of time and energy every day. But what determines whether it is men or women who are working harder in households? In most hunter-gatherer societies, men are the hunters and women are the gatherers – with men…

The Conversation

New power tariff reduced for business

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will make a cut to the power tariff for businesses after concerned groups petitioned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to lower electricity prices.

Bangkok Post

'Energy for All' winners ready to start

Energy investors who won an auction under the state's "Energy for All" renewable scheme are pushing ahead with their projects after the latest legal hurdle that caused more delays was cleared.

Bangkok Post

Businesses' power bills trimmed after outcry

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has scaled back a huge increase in power tariffs for businesses after they complained to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha about the impact on their costs.

Bangkok Post

Towards a cleaner future

Companies in the clean energy sector expect bright business prospects in 2023 as concerns over high energy costs and the impact of fossil fuels on the environment continue to grow.

Bangkok Post

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Spain's penal code reforms soften penalties linked to Catalan separatist leaders

Spain's upper house of parliament on Thursday passed reforms to the penal code affecting crimes for which several Catalan leaders were convicted after their 2017 bid for the region's independence resulted in a constitutional crisis.

Bangkok Post

Companies demand help amid power hike

The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) is asking Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to issue measures to ease entrepreneurs' financial burden after power bills were hiked next year.

Bangkok Post

ERC clarifies disparity in power tariff rates

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has clarified unequal power tariff rates for households and businesses, which caused the latter to demand authorities reconsider their decision before it takes effect in January next year.

Bangkok Post

Companies hit with 20% power hike

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has decided to maintain the power tariff at 4.72 baht per kilowatt-hour (unit), keeping electricity bills for households unchanged for the first four months next year, but it plans to increase the tariff imposed on businesses.

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Bangkok Post

Household power charge freeze, other users up 20%

The basic charge for household electricity will be frozen at the current rate, but will rise for all other users by about 20% next month, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) resolved on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Business sector warns prices will rise if cost of electricity goes up

The Federation of Thai Industries has warned that product prices will rise if the government approves a planned electricity price hike from next month.

The Guardian - AU

‘I don’t know’: Marise Payne unsure why advice for legal change to robodebt disappeared from policy plan

‘Essentially responsibility is always borne by ministers,’ the then human services minister tells royal commission into doomed scheme

Autosport

WRC releases details of new 24/7 TV subscription service

The World Rally Championship has confirmed its all-new 24/7 television subscription channel will launch midway through next year.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish academics awarded millions in European grant scheme

Three academics have been awarded more than €4.7m from the European Research Council Starting Grant scheme.

Bangkok Post

Gunkul plans to take part in ERC auction

SET-listed Gunkul Engineering, a renewable energy developer and construction firm, has announced its participation in an auction for power generation from renewable resources to be held by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

Bangkok Post

Hunt for higher local gas supply

The state subsidy programme for electricity prices is not the only way to curb their rapid increase, which is partially driven by the import of costly liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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